# 2010 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2010 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2009–10 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Palavela in Turin, Italy from 22 to 28 March.

## Qualification

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by 1 July 2009. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2010 World Junior Championships.
Based on the results of the 2009 World Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria.
Countries which qualified more than one entry per discipline:
| Spots | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Dance |
| 3 | Japan United States | Japan | China Russia | Russia United States |
| 2 | Canada Czech Republic France Italy Kazakhstan Russia | Canada Finland Georgia Russia South Korea Switzerland United States | Canada Germany Ukraine United States | Canada France Italy Great Britain |

## Schedule

(Local time, UTC+1)
* Tuesday, 23 March
** 12:00 Compulsory dance
** 17:15 Opening ceremonies
** 18:15 Pairs short program
* Wednesday, 24 March
** 09:30 Men's short program
** 18:45 Pairs free skating
* Thursday, 25 March
** 12:45 Original dance
** 18:15 Men's free skating
* Friday, 26 March
** 09:00 Ladies' short program
** 18:45 Free dance
* Saturday, 27 March
** 12:30 Ladies' free skating
* Sunday, 28 March
** 14:30 Gala exhibition

## Medals summary
### Medalists

Medals for overall placement:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Daisuke Takahashi | Patrick Chan | Brian Joubert |
| Ladies | Mao Asada | Kim Yuna | Laura Lepistö |
| Pairs | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov |
| Ice dancing | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali |
Small medals for placement in the short segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Daisuke Takahashi | Patrick Chan | Brian Joubert |
| Ladies | Mirai Nagasu | Mao Asada | Laura Lepistö |
| Pairs | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy |
| Ice dancing | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali |
Small medals for placement in the free segment:
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Daisuke Takahashi | Patrick Chan | Michal Březina |
| Ladies | Kim Yuna | Mao Asada | Miki Ando |
| Pairs | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov |
| Ice dancing | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat |

### Medals by country

Table of medals for overall placement:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Competition notes

* The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz. 2010 Worlds were the final event to include a compulsory dance. The last compulsory dance in competition was skated by Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali. Canada's Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir set a world record for the original dance, earning 70.27 points, 2010 Worlds were also the final event to include an original dance.
* Daisuke Takahashi became the first Japanese man to win a world title. He attempted a quad flip which made him the first gold medalist to try a quad since 2007 Worlds, but he underrotated the jump, making him the third champion in a row not to land one successfully.
* Mao Asada became the first ladies figure skater from Asia to win multiple world titles.
* Japan won two of the four titles, and both singles titles for the first time.
* Laura Lepistö became the first Finn to medal in ladies' singles at the World Championships.

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Daisuke Takahashi | Japan | 257.70 | 1 | 89.30 | 1 | 168.40 |
| 2 | Patrick Chan | Canada | 247.22 | 2 | 87.80 | 2 | 159.42 |
| 3 | Brian Joubert | France | 241.74 | 3 | 87.70 | 4 | 154.04 |
| 4 | Michal Březina | Czech Republic | 236.06 | 5 | 81.75 | 3 | 154.31 |
| 5 | Jeremy Abbott | United States | 232.10 | 6 | 81.05 | 6 | 151.05 |
| 6 | Adam Rippon | United States | 231.47 | 7 | 80.11 | 5 | 151.36 |
| 7 | Samuel Contesti | Italy | 218.66 | 8 | 78.40 | 11 | 140.26 |
| 8 | Kevin van der Perren | Belgium | 218.43 | 10 | 73.55 | 9 | 144.88 |
| 9 | Adrian Schultheiss | Sweden | 218.26 | 12 | 72.35 | 7 | 145.91 |
| 10 | Takahiko Kozuka | Japan | 216.73 | 4 | 84.20 | 12 | 132.53 |
| 11 | Kevin Reynolds | Canada | 216.58 | 14 | 71.20 | 8 | 145.38 |
| 12 | Javier Fernández | Spain | 215.66 | 13 | 71.65 | 10 | 144.01 |
| 13 | Denis Ten | Kazakhstan | 202.46 | 9 | 77.40 | 15 | 125.06 |
| 14 | Sergei Voronov | Russia | 200.60 | 11 | 73.42 | 14 | 127.18 |
| 15 | Florent Amodio | France | 197.25 | 15 | 68.31 | 13 | 128.94 |
| 16 | Anton Kovalevski | Ukraine | 186.03 | 16 | 67.60 | 19 | 118.43 |
| 17 | Guan Jinlin | China | 182.68 | 19 | 59.45 | 16 | 123.23 |
| 18 | Ryan Bradley | United States | 179.24 | 21 | 56.10 | 17 | 123.14 |
| 19 | Alexandr Kazakov | Belarus | 175.57 | 24 | 54.24 | 18 | 121.33 |
| 20 | Viktor Pfeifer | Austria | 170.79 | 17 | 59.95 | 21 | 110.84 |
| 21 | Abzal Rakimgaliev | Kazakhstan | 166.20 | 22 | 54.60 | 20 | 111.60 |
| 22 | Jamal Othman | Switzerland | 156.41 | 20 | 57.35 | 22 | 99.06 |
| 23 | Kim Min-seok | South Korea | 149.31 | 18 | 59.80 | 24 | 89.51 |
| 24 | Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari | Finland | 148.34 | 23 | 54.45 | 23 | 93.89 |
| Did not advance to free skating ||||||||
| 25 | Peter Liebers | Germany | | 25 | 54.09 | | |
| 26 | Pavel Kaška | Czech Republic | | 26 | 50.55 | | |
| 27 | Kevin Alves | Brazil | | 27 | 50.28 | | |
| 28 | Nobunari Oda | Japan | | 28 | 50.25 | | |
| 29 | Boris Martinec | Croatia | | 29 | 50.10 | | |
| 30 | Matthew Parr | United Kingdom | | 30 | 49.31 | | |
| 31 | Peter Reitmayer | Slovakia | | 31 | 48.72 | | |
| 32 | Zoltán Kelemen | Romania | | 32 | 46.94 | | |
| 33 | Damjan Ostojič | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | 33 | 45.30 | | |
| 34 | Andrew Huertas | Puerto Rico | | 34 | 45.09 | | |
| 35 | Maciej Cieplucha | Poland | | 35 | 44.30 | | |
| 36 | Viktor Romanenkov | Estonia | | 36 | 44.17 | | |
| 37 | Stephen Li-Chung Kuo | Chinese Taipei | | 37 | 44.15 | | |
| 38 | Saulius Ambrulevičius | Lithuania | | 38 | 42.37 | | |
| 39 | Mark Webster | Australia | | 39 | 42.30 | | |
| 40 | Georgi Kenchadze | Bulgaria | | 40 | 42.09 | | |
| 41 | Tigran Vardanjan | Hungary | | 41 | 39.30 | | |
| 42 | Sarkis Hayrapetyan | Armenia | | 42 | 39.02 | | |
| 43 | Maxim Shipov | Israel | | 43 | 38.26 | | |
| 44 | Humberto Contreras | Mexico | | 44 | 37.33 | | |
| 45 | Ali Demirboga | Turkey | | 45 | 36.39 | | |
| 46 | Girts Jekabsons | Latvia | | 46 | 31.79 | | |
| WD | Joffrey Bourdon | Montenegro | | | | | |
| WD | Artem Borodulin | Russia | | | | | |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Mao Asada | Japan | 197.58 | 2 | 68.08 | 2 | 129.50 |
| 2 | Kim Yuna | South Korea | 190.79 | 7 | 60.30 | 1 | 130.49 |
| 3 | Laura Lepistö | Finland | 178.62 | 3 | 64.30 | 6 | 114.32 |
| 4 | Miki Ando | Japan | 177.82 | 11 | 55.78 | 3 | 122.04 |
| 5 | Cynthia Phaneuf | Canada | 177.54 | 8 | 59.50 | 4 | 118.04 |
| 6 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 177.31 | 4 | 62.20 | 5 | 115.11 |
| 7 | Mirai Nagasu | United States | 175.48 | 1 | 70.40 | 11 | 105.08 |
| 8 | Ksenia Makarova | Russia | 169.64 | 5 | 62.06 | 8 | 107.58 |
| 9 | Rachael Flatt | United States | 167.44 | 6 | 60.88 | 9 | 106.56 |
| 10 | Viktoria Helgesson | Sweden | 161.79 | 9 | 56.32 | 10 | 105.47 |
| 11 | Akiko Suzuki | Japan | 160.04 | 20 | 48.36 | 7 | 111.68 |
| 12 | Sarah Hecken | Germany | 153.94 | 13 | 55.20 | 13 | 98.74 |
| 13 | Alena Leonova | Russia | 152.86 | 14 | 54.36 | 14 | 98.50 |
| 14 | Jenna McCorkell | United Kingdom | 150.90 | 15 | 52.12 | 12 | 98.78 |
| 15 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 147.66 | 10 | 56.10 | 15 | 91.56 |
| 16 | Liu Yan | China | 141.29 | 18 | 49.96 | 16 | 91.33 |
| 17 | Cheltzie Lee | Australia | 137.78 | 17 | 51.36 | 17 | 86.42 |
| 18 | Elene Gedevanishvili | Georgia | 137.33 | 12 | 55.26 | 21 | 82.07 |
| 19 | Kiira Korpi | Finland | 134.49 | 16 | 51.72 | 20 | 82.77 |
| 20 | Sonia Lafuente | Spain | 133.31 | 21 | 47.72 | 18 | 85.59 |
| 21 | Jelena Glebova | Estonia | 132.85 | 22 | 47.72 | 19 | 85.13 |
| 22 | Kwak Min-jeong | South Korea | 120.47 | 23 | 47.46 | 22 | 73.01 |
| 23 | Anastasia Gimazetdinova | Uzbekistan | 113.89 | 19 | 49.10 | 23 | 64.79 |
| 24 | Manouk Gijsman | Netherlands | 111.94 | 24 | 47.44 | 24 | 64.50 |
| Did not advance to free skating ||||||||
| 25 | Ivana Reitmayerová | Slovakia | | 25 | 45.96 | | |
| 26 | Sarah Meier | Switzerland | | 26 | 45.06 | | |
| 27 | Tamar Katz | Israel | | 27 | 44.96 | | |
| 28 | Tuğba Karademir | Turkey | | 28 | 44.52 | | |
| 29 | Myriane Samson | Canada | | 29 | 44.20 | | |
| 30 | Kerstin Frank | Austria | | 30 | 43.80 | | |
| 31 | Victoria Muniz | Puerto Rico | | 31 | 41.08 | | |
| 32 | Bettina Heim | Switzerland | | 32 | 41.00 | | |
| 33 | Fleur Maxwell | Luxembourg | | 33 | 40.22 | | |
| 34 | Teodora Poštič | Slovenia | | 34 | 40.20 | | |
| 35 | Karina Johnson | Denmark | | 35 | 38.22 | | |
| 36 | Zanna Pugaca | Latvia | | 36 | 38.20 | | |
| 37 | Mirna Libric | Croatia | | 37 | 37.24 | | |
| 38 | Lauren Ko | Philippines | | 38 | 33.34 | | |
| 39 | Martina Bocek | Czech Republic | | 39 | 32.90 | | |
| 40 | Irina Movchan | Ukraine | | 40 | 32.60 | | |
| 41 | Sonia Radeva | Bulgaria | | 41 | 32.12 | | |
| 42 | Ana Cecilia Cantu | Mexico | | 42 | 31.88 | | |
| 43 | Crystal Kiang | Chinese Taipei | | 43 | 31.72 | | |
| 44 | Georgia Glastris | Greece | | 44 | 31.36 | | |
| 45 | Gwendoline Didier | France | | 45 | 29.32 | | |
| 46 | Marina Seeh | Serbia | | 46 | 28.32 | | |
| 47 | Clara Peters | Ireland | | 47 | 28.20 | | |
| 48 | Tamami Ono | Hong Kong | | 48 | 27.74 | | |
| 49 | Abigail Pietersen | South Africa | | 49 | 25.76 | | |
| 50 | Charissa Tansomboon | Thailand | | 50 | 25.22 | | |
| 51 | Sabina Paquier | Romania | | 51 | 24.42 | | |
| 52 | Yoniko Eva Washington | India | | 52 | 24.24 | | |
| 53 | Beatrice Rozinskaite | Lithuania | | 53 | 23.68 | | |
| WD | Isabelle Pieman | Belgium | | | | | |
| WD | Sonja Mugoša | Montenegro | | | | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 211.39 | 1 | 75.28 | 1 | 136.11 |
| 2 | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Germany | 204.74 | 3 | 69.52 | 2 | 135.22 |
| 3 | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Russia | 203.79 | 2 | 73.12 | 3 | 130.67 |
| 4 | Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov | Russia | 197.39 | 4 | 69.48 | 4 | 127.91 |
| 5 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 195.78 | 5 | 69.20 | 5 | 126.58 |
| 6 | Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison | Canada | 177.07 | 8 | 59.36 | 6 | 117.71 |
| 7 | Caydee Denney / Jeremy Barrett | United States | 172.47 | 6 | 60.52 | 8 | 111.95 |
| 8 | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov | Russia | 172.04 | 7 | 59.78 | 7 | 112.26 |
| 9 | Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig | United States | 165.96 | 9 | 57.74 | 9 | 108.22 |
| 10 | Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay | Canada | 154.72 | 12 | 54.40 | 10 | 100.32 |
| 11 | Stefania Berton / Ondřej Hotárek | Italy | 149.78 | 11 | 54.58 | 11 | 95.20 |
| 12 | Vanessa James / Yannick Bonheur | France | 146.58 | 10 | 55.60 | 13 | 90.98 |
| 13 | Anaïs Morand / Antoine Dorsaz | Switzerland | 144.46 | 13 | 53.70 | 14 | 90.76 |
| 14 | Maylin Hausch / Daniel Wende | Germany | 142.98 | 14 | 49.74 | 12 | 93.24 |
| 15 | Joanna Sulej / Mateusz Chruściński | Poland | 138.26 | 15 | 48.14 | 15 | 90.12 |
| 16 | Stacey Kemp / David King | United Kingdom | 132.87 | 16 | 45.14 | 16 | 87.73 |
| Did not advance to free skating ||||||||
| 17 | Dong Huibo / Wu Yiming | China | | 17 | 43.08 | | |
| 18 | Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov | Estonia | | 18 | 41.94 | | |
| 19 | Lubov Bakirova / Mikalai Kamianchuk | Belarus | | 19 | 41.44 | | |
| 20 | Amanda Sunyoto-Yang / Darryll Sulindro-Yang | Chinese Taipei | | 20 | 41.28 | | |
| 21 | Jessica Crenshaw / Chad Tsagris | Greece | | 21 | 40.36 | | |
| 22 | Ekaterina Kostenko / Roman Talan | Ukraine | | 22 | 39.18 | | |
| 23 | Nina Ivanova / Filip Zalevski | Bulgaria | | 23 | 36.84 | | |
| 24 | Gabriela Čermanová / Martin Hanulák | Slovakia | | 24 | 35.18 | | |
| 25 | Danielle Montalbano / Evgeni Krasnopolski | Israel | | 25 | 32.02 | | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir | Canada | 224.43 | 1 | 44.13 | 1 | 70.27 | 2 | 110.03 |
| 2 | Meryl Davis / Charlie White | United States | 223.03 | 2 | 43.25 | 2 | 69.29 | 1 | 110.49 |
| 3 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 197.85 | 3 | 40.85 | 3 | 59.16 | 4 | 97.84 |
| 4 | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat | France | 194.39 | 4 | 37.75 | 4 | 58.55 | 3 | 98.09 |
| 5 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr | United Kingdom | 189.11 | 6 | 37.56 | 5 | 58.23 | 5 | 93.32 |
| 6 | Alexandra Zaretsky / Roman Zaretsky | Israel | 181.26 | 8 | 33.79 | 6 | 56.13 | 6 | 91.34 |
| 7 | Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier | Canada | 180.30 | 9 | 33.32 | 7 | 55.76 | 7 | 91.22 |
| 8 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Russia | 177.23 | 11 | 32.43 | 8 | 55.04 | 8 | 89.76 |
| 9 | Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates | United States | 168.77 | 10 | 32.61 | 10 | 52.79 | 10 | 83.37 |
| 10 | Nóra Hoffmann / Maxim Zavozin | Hungary | 166.90 | 13 | 31.47 | 11 | 51.91 | 9 | 83.52 |
| 11 | Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte | Italy | 164.52 | 7 | 34.05 | 12 | 51.40 | 14 | 79.07 |
| 12 | Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones | France | 161.86 | 15 | 30.55 | 13 | 50.52 | 12 | 80.79 |
| 13 | Ekaterina Rubleva / Ivan Shefer | Russia | 161.20 | 16 | 30.53 | 16 | 48.77 | 11 | 81.90 |
| 14 | Kimberly Navarro / Brent Bommentre | United States | 159.68 | 14 | 31.36 | 15 | 50.33 | 15 | 77.99 |
| 15 | Cathy Reed / Chris Reed | Japan | 154.93 | 23 | 24.78 | 14 | 50.41 | 13 | 79.74 |
| 16 | Lucie Myslivečková / Matěj Novák | Czech Republic | 147.93 | 18 | 26.95 | 17 | 46.07 | 17 | 74.91 |
| 17 | Caitlin Mallory / Kristjan Rand | Estonia | 147.39 | 20 | 26.62 | 21 | 43.77 | 16 | 77.00 |
| 18 | Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen | China | 142.80 | 17 | 28.42 | 19 | 44.59 | 19 | 69.79 |
| 19 | Kira Geil / Dmitri Matsjuk | Austria | 142.49 | 19 | 26.69 | 18 | 44.88 | 18 | 70.92 |
| WD | Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski | Russia | 91.98 | 5 | 37.70 | 9 | 54.28 | WD | |
| Did not advance to free dance ||||||||||
| 21 | Allison Reed / Otar Japaridze | Georgia | 69.42 | 22 | 26.07 | 22 | 43.35 | | |
| 22 | Carolina Hermann / Daniel Hermann | Germany | 69.17 | 21 | 26.36 | 23 | 42.81 | | |
| 23 | Christina Chitwood / Mark Hanretty | United Kingdom | 68.97 | 24 | 24.70 | 20 | 44.27 | | |
| 24 | Katelyn Good / Nikolaj Sorensen | Denmark | 63.55 | 25 | 22.56 | 24 | 40.99 | | |
| 25 | Danielle O'Brien / Gregory Merriman | Australia | 59.28 | 26 | 21.07 | 25 | 38.21 | | |
| 26 | Jenette Maitz / Alper Uçar | Turkey | 49.50 | 27 | 17.36 | 26 | 32.14 | | |
| WD | Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo | Ukraine | | 12 | 31.66 | | | | |

## Prize money

| | Prize money (US$) | Prize money (US$) |
| Placement | Men's / Ladies' singles | Pairs / Ice dancers |
| 1st | 45,000 | 67,500 |
| 2nd | 27,000 | 40,500 |
| 3rd | 18,000 | 27,000 |
| 4th | 13,000 | 19,500 |
| 5th | 10,000 | 15,000 |
| 6th | 7,000 | 10,500 |
| 7th | 6,000 | 9,000 |
| 8th | 5,000 | 7,500 |
| 9th | 3,500 | 5,250 |
| 10th | 3,000 | 4,500 |
| 11th | 2,500 | 3,750 |
| 12th | 2,000 | 3,000 |
| Pairs and ice dancing couples split the amount. Total prize money: US$710,000. |||